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Too Informed To Vote Republican

Read and watch the convoluted logic displayed here by none other than multi-billionaire Charles Koch. I guess 34 billion dollars isn't enough for him?

Quoted from the Eagle interview, Koch said this…

We want to do a better job of raising up the disadvantaged and the poorest in this country, rather than saying ‘Oh, we’re just fine now.’ We’re not saying that at all. What we’re saying is, we need to analyze all these additional policies, these subsidies, this cronyism, this avalanche of regulations, all these things that are creating a culture of dependency. And like permitting, to start a business, in many cities, to drive a taxicab, to become a hairdresser. Anything that people with limited capital can do to raise themselves up, they keep throwing obstacles in their way. And so we’ve got to clear those out. Or the minimum wage. Or anything that reduces the mobility of labor.

See the rest: http://progressivepopulist.org/2013/07/11/billionaire-koch-brother-dumping-minimum-wage-will-help-the-poor-video/

March Against Monsanto

Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? It’s sad, but true; our food system today is contributing to lower human intelligence across the board.

http://www.undergroundhealth.com/human-intelligence-declining/

Planned Parenthood Action

Here's some good news! A district judge has struck down a 2011 law restricting access to safe and legal abortion in North Dakota. Share this to spread the word: http://bit.ly/10Z7gNW

Americans Against the Tea Party added a photo to their timeline.

From I Acknowledge Class Warfare Exists.

Shared at Americans Against the Tea Party.

EarthTechling

Connecticut unveils an initiative to greatly increase the number of electric car charging stations around the state. http://ow.ly/mYNWz

US Uncut

Japan has a law called the Tax Haven Counter Measure Law. Under this law, Japanese parent companies are taxed on the undistributed earnings of foreign subsidiaries in any country with a 20% tax rate or less.

Read more: http://huff.to/15k5erv

Stop Telling Lies About Liberals And We'll Stop Telling The Truth About You shared Democratic National Christian Choice's photo.

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While it's from a liberal blogger, he does provide his sources. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/

 

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God Bless the President of the United States

ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. We agree. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door.

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Do they prepare food with their clothes off?

These ingredients help fast food companies maximize profits and minimize costs. But as more studies show the negative health impacts of additives and synthetic ...chemicals, doesn't lowering the cost of fast food simply raise the cost of healthcare?

1. McDonalds Milkshakes use 50 chemicals including ethyl acetate, phenethyl alcohol and a solvent to "imitate" the flavor of a real strawberry.

2. The FDA allows an average of 30 insect fragments, including rodent hair, per 100 grams of peanut butter.

3. Shellac is not only used to improve the shine of wood, it's also used to improve the shine of jelly beans.

4. The FDA allows bacteriophages (a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria) in lunch meat and hot dogs.

5. Chicken "nuggets" use pink paste processed with chemicals and bacteria, washed in ammonia and reflavored with more chemicals before being dyed.

6. Apparently there's a fair amount of hair in processed food (this one seemed a little hype-y to me; even the best of us lose hair while cooking). :-)

7. Each can of coke contains 10 teaspoons of sugar, along with phosphoric acid to enable your body to tolerate that much sugar.

8. Fast food salads contain Propylene Glycerol (lettuce is soaked in a solution of water and P.G. to help keep it crispy).

9. Many fast food chicken items contain beef additives, listed as an "extract or essence," in order to enhance flavor.

10. "Processed" cheese contains 49% of additives, chemicals and flavorings

And a bonus #11: virtually all fast food is packed with GMOs -- primarily from canola oil and corn byproducts.

Source of the info and graphic: PositiveMed

League of Conservation Voters

Hit LIKE to congratulate Senator Ed Markey on becoming our newest U.S. Senator!

Learn why the Senate just got so much greener here: http://bit.ly/CongratsMarkey

 

TheBlueSquirrel.org: My Left Nut shared Meme GOP's photo.

Blue wants to make sure that everyone knows that the crap where Cantor and the GOP "separated" SNAP from the Farm Bill so they could vote on it at some future date.....took no prisoners. Our vets and active duty military that depend on food stamps...and their families....were part of the group that was thrown under that bus. And still haven't heard about the "vote" on SNAP...have you?

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/food-stamps-military_n_3462465.html

God Bless the President of the United States shared Being Liberal's photo.

 

(M) We're definitely proud to be liberal, are you?

 

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Carl Younger shared Being Liberal's photo.

The Republican war on education and students damages the future of America. Clean House in 2014.

 

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JFK - listen to his voice... http://bit.ly/JFKbest

 

 

God Bless the President of the United States via Cecil Fahim Delmore

This is both embarrassing and deeply telling.
In a financial planning guide, the company accidentally illustrates precisely how impossible it is to scrape by making minimum wage.

McDonald's Can't Figure Out How Its Workers Survive on Minimum Wage

In a financial planning guide for its workers, the company accidentally illustrates precisely how impossible it is to scrape by making minimum wage.

Jordan WeissmannJul 16 2013

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/mcdonalds-literally-cannot-imagine-how-its-workers-would-survive-on-the-minimum-wage/277845/

 

 

 

God Bless the President of the United States shared Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr.'s photo.

Here's your "Stand your ground" law, it's all Bull!!!! Just an excuse to rid the state of "undesirables." The corruption in Florida is Epic!!! BTW, the same "special" prosecutor who set Zimmerman free with her inept prosecution, was the one who put this (BLACK) woman in jail for 20 years for firing a warning shot in the air in an attempt to get away from her abusive husband. FYI, he showed up and testified FOR her telling the jury she did what she had to do to get away from me when I was abusing her. Yeah, justice in Florida? Nah... just kidding! What other state has a criminal Governor? We must remove every single fascist GOP candidate from dog catcher to Senate!!!!

STAY AWAKE!!!!
WE HAVE TO REPAIR THOUSANDS OF MISTAKES!!!!

 

Earlier I met with Marissa Alexander who is facing 20 years in prison after having her 'Stand Your Ground' defense rejected in Florida

God Bless the President of the United States shared Truth Beckons's photo.

Monsanto has been a corporate funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

How can you say you're Pro-Life and support the Death Penalty?

Texas Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Block Abortion Restrictions Until The Death Penalty Is Abolished

By Tara Culp-Ressler on Jul 16, 2013

 

State Rep. Harold Dutton Jr. (D) (Credit: Texas Moratorium Network)

 

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/16/2312051/texas-democrats-death-penalty-abortion/?mobile=nc

 

The Truth About Republican Racism and the “Southern Strategy”

June 4, 2013 By Allen Clifton

 

Whenever the topic of racism gets brought up between Democrats and Republicans, there are two facts you’ll almost always hear conservatives use to counter the belief that their party is full of racism:

• President Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
• The KKK was largely organized, and populated by, Democrats

And both are facts.

But when someone uses these two items as their defense that the Republican party isn’t loaded with racism, they’re only showing their ignorance about the reality of racism within their party.

It’s true, Southern Democrats were extremely racist. At the same time, Northern “liberal” Democrats and Republicans had already been working together to end discrimination and pushed for ending segregation.

See, in 1948, President Harry Truman made one of the boldest public moves by a Democrat towards Civil Rights for African Americans by creating the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, and ending discrimination in the military. At the Democratic National Convention in 1948 a call was made for civil rights—prompting at least 35 Southern delegates to walk out.

Read the rest HERE

Carl Younger shared Too Big Has Failed's photo.

It will not happen unless there are more people in congress that care as much about the American people as they care about corporations and banks. Clean House in 2014.

 

After last week's proposal to restore Glass-Steagall hit the news, critics have been fighting it hard.

We respond to them today in our post "7 Reasons To Support Glass-Steagall, and a List of Those Who Do."

http://www.toobighasfailed.org/2013/07/16/reasons-to-support-glass-steagall/

 

TheBlueSquirrel.org: My Left Nut shared a photo.

A year ago...this article and Blue's summary was posted. THE RYAN ANTI-LIFE BUDGET PLAN. We got together and voted Ryan and his buddy Romney out. But the remnants of Ryan's plan....in the face of everything we thought we had voted down....is making its way through our Congress. What the hell is happening and where are our democratic leaders when we need them to lead?

 

Paul Ryan's Anti-Life Budget Plan....

(http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/17/705401/how-paul-ryans-budget-would-devastate-social-programs-for-todays-lower-income-americans/)

The Everlasting GOP Stoppers

via The Blue Street Journal.

Veruca.

 

 

Greenpeace USA

This is amazing, SHARE if you agree.

This makes India the fourth country to ban keeping of cetacean species in captivity, after Costa Rica, Hungary, and Chile. They went even further than the others though, and stated that:

“Whereas cetaceans in general are highly intelligent and sensitive, and various scientists who have researched dolphin behavior have suggested that the unusually high intelligence; as compared to other animals means that dolphin should be seen as ‘non-human persons’ and as such should have their own specific rights and is morally unacceptable to keep them captive for entertainment purpose,”
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More information: http://bit.ly/1aKvwKk

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